ManOfSussex
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Us and The West Indies can't compete at cricket as we are at LA, so if football follows suit for GB never mind.
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[Football] Team GB men’s football team for LA 2028?
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Doonhamer7
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None of us - there is no such thing as British football team and this should be binned as an idea now
And bring in (topless) darts, (trouserless) snooker and shove 1.25 penny
Shouldn't we be concentrating on winning the 2028 Euros, rather than worrying about the Olympic football tournament.
Football at the Olympics is like having omelette and chips from the Chinese, you’re being massively unadventurous in a world of better options when you can get a better version of the boring thing literally anywhere else
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I thought, perhaps wrongly, that Great Britain wouldn't enter a team because of issues with FIFA voting rights and other nations who say we should play as one anyway.
Removing football from a tournament that is ALL ABOUT the best athletes competing in the biggest sports... If football isn't one of those sports, the whole existence of the Olympics is pointless. "Five-a-side" football and the other shit suggested here could perhaps turn it more "interesting", but that as a freak show rather than the greatest sports event.
1.25 penny? That's almost a threepenny bit. Never catch on ...........................
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I don't think anyone is 'worrying' about the Olympics.
PS Spanish men won both tournaments.
Completely, 100% disagree, but not going to waste time arguing about it. You'd just go on and on and on.
You're right, I would probably answer to your arguments. Its called a discussion.Completely, 100% disagree, but not going to waste time arguing about it. You'd just go on and on and on.
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Little known fact concerning the rules of football.
The International Football Associations Board are the custodians of the rules.
There are 8 members, 4 of which are permanent- the nations of the UK.
So no football rules can be changed without the say so of at least two UK nations (6 have to agree)
The year Albion won the Charity Shield, the IFAB meeting was held at the Royal York Hotel.
The International Football Associations Board are the custodians of the rules.
There are 8 members, 4 of which are permanent- the nations of the UK.
So no football rules can be changed without the say so of at least two UK nations (6 have to agree)
The year Albion won the Charity Shield, the IFAB meeting was held at the Royal York Hotel.
Have I gone and multiplied instead of dividing again?
Thank goodness there are more senior folk online to keep me on my toes. Ahem.
Shove 0.208p. While wearing a dressing gown.
No football rules will ever change, then. <sigh>
jonny.rainbow
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Declan Rice?
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It's the reason why I wondered that we might reticent about having a UK team.
FIFA don't have to agree the changes, but they cannot change the rules without the UK being involved heavily in the decision. We invented the game, so if you try to do something we don't like we're taking our ball home.. (but not a trophy)
jonny.rainbow
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Football has been at the Olympics longer than for diving and at more games than Boxing.
Let’s not forget the World Cup only started in 1930 and ended up usurping the original World Football Championship of the Olympic Games.
I seem to recall that recently it was exactly that. The squad would be 95% English if picked on merit. The squabbles have not been made fully public but I seem to recall that the jocks objected to a squad with only WBG in it. And the Welsh objected to any squad with an Ulsterman in it. And the Isle on Man simply objected.
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I'm failing to see the validity of that argument, given that the tournament is for U-23 players (on the men's side).
You are right. Olympic football is not a competition between the best in the world.
But why should this be? In the Olympics?
Having an Olympic sport with an age limit is absurd.
We already have an Olympics with restrictions. It starts in just under 2 weeks and is called the Paralympics.
